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Friday, January 30, 2015

(Reuters)
- Shells hit a cultural center and a trolleybus in the eastern
Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Friday, killing at least six people,
journalists in the city said.

A cameraman saw four covered bodies
near the cultural center and a fifth dead person in a badly-damaged car
nearby. A woman was weeping by one of the bodies. Separately, near
a damaged trolleybus, he saw the body of a sixth dead person.

The separatist administration in the city said at least seven people
were killed, including five in the strike on the cultural center and at
least two when an artillery shell hit the trolleybus, just over 1
kilometer (half a mile) away.

The past week in eastern Ukraine has seen the worst fighting since a cease-fire agreement five months ago.
There
was no immediate word from the Kiev military side on the attacks, which
came as preparations were under way for a meeting of the so-called
"contact group" bringing together representatives of Ukraine, Russia,
rebel leaders and the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe.

More than 5,000 people have been killed since
the conflict erupted last April pitting government forces against
Russian-backed rebels who have declared their own "people's republics"
in the east of Ukraine.